How to Get More Inventory Slots

Overview

Inventory management is one of the biggest early challenges in Crimson Desert. You start the game with just 50 inventory slots, which are shared across all three playable characters: Kliff, Damiane, and Oongka. Because the world is packed with crafting materials, weapons, armor, consumables, and loot of every kind, those 50 slots fill up fast. Without upgrades, you will find yourself making frequent trips back to vendors to sell excess items.

Fortunately, Crimson Desert provides several ways to expand your carrying capacity. The primary method is collecting inventory bags, which come in three sizes and are obtained through vendor purchases, quest rewards, and faction commissions. By the time you finish the main story and side content, you can accumulate well over 200 inventory slots.

This guide covers every method for increasing your inventory space, along with practical tips for keeping your pack organized.

Bag Types

Inventory expansion in Crimson Desert is handled through bags. There is no weight limit system; your carrying capacity is determined entirely by how many inventory slots you have unlocked. Each bag you obtain permanently increases your slot count. Bags come in three tiers:

Consumables and materials stack up to 50 items per slot, while weapons and armor each occupy one slot regardless of type. Because gear takes up so much space, expanding your slots early is essential if you want to keep exploring without constant inventory juggling.

Buying Small Bags from Vendors

The fastest way to gain extra inventory space is to purchase Small Bags from merchants. Nearly every vendor across Pywel sells at least one Small Bag for 50 Copper Coins each. This is extremely affordable, and you should buy every Small Bag you can find whenever you visit a new town or settlement.

Where to Buy

The earliest and most convenient place to start buying Small Bags is Hernand Town. Multiple vendors in Hernand stock Small Bags, including equipment shops and general merchants. The NPC Rhett, located in central Hernand, is one of the first vendors you will encounter. Dahlia is another merchant who carries Small Bags.

As you travel to other towns and regions, make it a habit to check every vendor you find. Each vendor has a limited supply of Small Bags, but across all the merchants in the game, the total adds up significantly.

Tips for Buying Bags

• Make purchasing Small Bags your first priority whenever you reach a new settlement.

• At 50 Copper Coins per bag, the cost is negligible. Even in the early game, you can afford several bags without any trouble.

• Vendor stock for bags is limited per merchant, so visit as many different vendors as possible.

• Check vendors again after progressing through major story beats, as their stock may refresh.

Greymane Commissions

The single largest source of inventory expansion is Greymane Commissions. These are a special category of Faction Quests that become available after you establish the Greymane Camp at Howling Hill during Chapter 3 of the main story. Commission quests involve helping your fellow Greymane members with various tasks, such as gathering materials, delivering messages, or clearing out enemies.

There are 27 Greymane Commissions in total, and each one rewards a Medium Bag (+3 slots). Completing all 27 commissions gives you an additional 81 inventory slots, making this the most efficient method for expanding your inventory by a large margin.

How to Access Commissions

• Open your Journal and navigate to Faction Quests.

• Select the Greymane faction, then look under Greymane Commissions.

• Hover over any quest to see its rewards on the right side of the screen. Quests that reward a Medium Bag are marked clearly.

• Commission tasks range from simple item deliveries to combat challenges in the field.

Prioritize commissions early. Many of the tasks can be completed alongside other activities like exploring or gathering, so they rarely require dedicated detours.

Quest Rewards

Beyond Greymane Commissions, many Main Quests and other Faction Quests throughout the game reward bags as completion bonuses. Medium Bags are the most common quest reward, but certain critical story quests award Large Bags worth +5 slots each.

To check whether a quest offers a bag reward before accepting it, open the Journal and hover over the quest entry. The reward panel on the right side shows all rewards, including bag type. When you have multiple quests available, prioritize those that offer Medium or Large Bag rewards over other reward types.

Key Quest Rewards

Notice board quests in towns and camps are another source of bag rewards. Check the boards frequently and accept multiple quests at once to increase your chances of earning inventory upgrades.

Automatic Slot Increases

In addition to bags, several inventory slot increases are granted automatically as you progress through the story:

• Unlocking Damiane: When Damiane becomes a playable character, you receive +5 inventory slots.

• Unlocking Oongka: When Oongka becomes a playable character, you receive +5 inventory slots.

• First Greymane Camp Expansion: Completing the first major expansion of the Greymane Camp grants +5 inventory slots.

These bonuses are awarded through normal story progression and do not require any extra effort. Together, they add 15 free slots on top of your starting 50.

The Supply Chest

After progressing through Greymane Camp quests and establishing the camp at Howling Hill, you gain access to a Supply Chest located behind Rory in the camp. This chest serves as a passive loot collection point.

When you clear points of interest, liberate camps, or complete combat encounters where enemies despawn before you can loot them, any uncollected loot is automatically funneled into the Supply Chest. This means you do not need to worry about losing items if a quest completes and enemies disappear mid-fight.

Important Limitations

• You cannot manually store items in the Supply Chest. It only collects loot you missed during combat and events.

• There is no traditional storage or stash system in Crimson Desert at launch. You must carry all of your items on your person.

• Pearl Abyss has confirmed that a proper storage system is planned for a future update, though no release date has been announced.

Vendor Repurchase Workaround

Since Crimson Desert currently lacks a dedicated storage system, some players use vendor shops as makeshift storage. Here is how it works:

• Sell items you want to store temporarily to a vendor, such as Rhett in central Hernand Town.

• When you need those items back, return to the same vendor and use the Repurchase tab to buy them back.

Warning: Vendor repurchase inventories reset after approximately 7 in-game days. If you wait too long, the items you sold will disappear permanently. This method is best used as a short-term workaround rather than long-term storage.

Item Stacking and Grouping

Understanding how items stack is important for making the most of your available slots:

You can press the L button (on controller) to group or ungroup similar items in your inventory. Grouping consolidates scattered stacks of the same material into a single stack, freeing up slots that were only partially filled.

Recommended Progression

Here is a practical roadmap for expanding your inventory as you play through the game:

• Early Game (Chapters 1-2): Buy every Small Bag you can find from vendors in Hernand. Even a handful of +1 upgrades adds up quickly and makes the early hours much more comfortable.

• Mid Game (Chapter 3): Once you establish the Greymane Camp at Howling Hill, start tackling Greymane Commissions immediately. Each commission awards a Medium Bag (+3 slots), and there are 27 available.

• Ongoing: Check notice boards and the Faction Quests tab in your Journal regularly. Prioritize quests that reward Medium or Large Bags over other rewards.

• Late Game: By the time you complete most side content and commissions, you should have well over 200 inventory slots. At that point, inventory space is rarely a concern.

Tips and Tricks

• Sell or dismantle gear you no longer need. Weapons and armor are the biggest space hogs since they do not stack.

• Cook raw ingredients into meals before storing them. Cooked food stacks just like raw ingredients but provides combat buffs when eaten.

• Visit every vendor in every new town. Even if you are not buying gear, check for Small Bags.

• Use the item grouping feature (L button) regularly to consolidate partial stacks and reclaim wasted slots.

• If your inventory is completely full and you are far from a vendor, prioritize keeping rare crafting materials and drop common items that are easy to re-acquire.

• Check the Supply Chest at your camp periodically. Loot from cleared encounters accumulates there automatically.

See Also

• Greymane Camp Guide

• Beginners Guide

• Crafting

• Cooking Guide

• Faction Quests

• Hernand Town